Found 3 items, similar to Fritter.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: fritter
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: fritter
fritter
n : small quantity of fried batter containing fruit or meat or
vegetables
v : spend frivolously and unwisely;
“Fritter away one's
inheritance” [syn:
frivol away,
dissipate,
shoot,
fritter away
,
fool,
fool away]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Fritter
Fritter
\Frit"ter\, n. [OR. fritour, friture, pancake, F.
friture frying, a thing fried, from frire to fry. See
Far,
v. t.]
1. A small quantity of batter, fried in boiling lard or in a
frying pan. Fritters are of various kinds, named from the
substance inclosed in the batter; as, apple fritters, clam
fritters, oyster fritters.
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2. A fragment; a shred; a small piece.
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And cut whole giants into fritters. --Hudibras.
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Corn fritter. See under
Corn.
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Fritter
\Frit"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Frittered; p. pr. &
vb. n.
Frittering.]
1. To cut, as meat, into small pieces, for frying.
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2. To break into small pieces or fragments.
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Break all nerves, and fritter all their sense.
--Pope.
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To fritter away, to diminish; to pare off; to reduce to
nothing by taking away a little at a time; also, to waste
piecemeal; as, to fritter away time, strength, credit,
etc.
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